Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm

Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm
Location 11720 Wolfsville Rd., Myersville, Maryland
Coordinates 39°33′25″N 77°31′38″W / 39.55694°N 77.52722°W / 39.55694; -77.52722Coordinates: 39°33′25″N 77°31′38″W / 39.55694°N 77.52722°W / 39.55694; -77.52722
Area 32 acres (13 ha)
Built 1840 (1840)
Architectural style Greek Revival
NRHP Reference # 98000944[1]
Added to NRHP July 31, 1998

Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm is a historic home and farm complex located at Myersville, Maryland, Frederick County. It consists of a mid-19th-century, Greek Revival farmhouse and 13 related buildings and structures. The house is a  2 1⁄2-story stone center-passage house on a limestone foundation, with a  1 1⁄2-story kitchen wing and 18-inch-thick (460 mm) walls. The house was built between 1840 and 1850. Also on the property is an 1881 tenant house with corresponding barn, spring house, and washhouse / privy; an 1884–1897 bank barn; a pre-1830 granary; a 19th-century wood shed; late-19th-century hog pen / chicken house; a pre-1830 beehive oven; a late-19th-century smokehouse; a spring house with a Late Victorian cottage addition; and early-20th-century concrete block milk house; and a log summer kitchen of unknown date. The Grossnickel family was a German American family who were instrumental in the establishment of the Grossnickel Church of the Brethren.[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ Elizabeth Jo Lampl (February 1998). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Peter of P. Grossnickel Farm" (PDF). Maryland Historical Trust. Retrieved 2016-01-01.


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